Center for Teaching and Learning MAY EVENT R.S.V.P

SESSION 1--- 9:45 -11:15: USING INFORMAL AND CREATIVE WRITING TO ENGAGE STUDENTS

Informal and creative writing assignments (versus formal evaluative) to engage meaningful classroom conversation, projects, and experiences with subject matter will be presented. Using Arthur Danto as a jumping off point about his experience with Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box: “It entered my life and thought and transformed them both. The encounter with the Brillo Box turned me into a philosopher of art.” These sessions will give us all tools for whatever we are teaching—Dance, Liberal Arts, Music, Film, Design, Visual Arts and Crafts—to have our students experience the classroom and content as a meaningful encounter.

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SESSION 2---11:30-1:00 BEYOND THE ONCE and DONE: USING ‘IMAGINATIVE PATHWAYS’ TO IGNITE ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY

This session will focus on exploring how teachers move students’ work beyond the once and done by designing “imaginative pathways” to push students concepts. ideas and techniques further. Diving into this topic with Neil Gaiman, “The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies,” These sessions will dig into the ways in which we move students projects and artisitic ways of being in the world into greater and more complex imaginative states.

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LUNCH -- 1:00 - 2:15

Includes performance presentation by Kathe Rose, Q&A

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SESSION 3: 2:30-4:30 ALL TOGETHER NOW: ENGAGING STUDENT DIVERSITY AND CREATING COMMUNITY WITHIN THE CLASSROOM AND STUDIO

Using Industrial Design's transformative problem-solving strategy, participants will design methods to help engage students and build stronger more dynamic communities in our diverse classrooms/studios.